Latino Authors Make Amazon's Fall Reading List

By Michael Lopez

Sure Borders may be gone, but that doesn't mean that America isn't still picking up plenty of libros. The country's biggest online book distributor, Amazon.com, is hyping a slew of hot page-turners for fall, including several by prominent Latino authors.

By far, one of the biggest books of the season will be Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs. The first "authorized" biography of the now-former Apple CEO, Jobs promises plenty of juicy details on the world-renowned computer giant.

In the younger fiction department, Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever will be hard to beat. The seventh installment of a series that may give Harry Potter a run for his money, Wimpy Kid is expected to ship six million units when it arrives in November.

But enough with the power players. Let's focus on some Latino up-and-comers, shall we? Justin Torres has had his work published in magazines like Vanity Fair and Esquire, but now he's hitting the big time with his first fiction novel, We The Animals. Focused on three brothers being raised by a Puerto Rican father and a white mother, it's already been heavily praised by the literature community.

Amazon’s also giving quite a bit of love to Hector Tobar's mystery novel, The Barbarian Nurses. Tobar, a respected writer for the L.A. Times, has been known to weave a good tale and this one about a Mexican housekeeper's journey to find a missing family sounds fascinating.

In the classics department, you won't want to miss Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview & Other Conversations. Sadly this legendary Chilean author passed away in 2003, but these never-published essays will give readers the chance to learn more about a writer who many described as "Latin America's T.S. Eliot."

And just in time for Halloween, Amazon’s releasing Guillermo del Toro's novel, The Night Eternal. A truly epic vampire saga (that would make a great movie, by the way) reaches its final conclusion with this creepy libro. Expect winged monsters, fangs in the neck, and plenty more of Guillermo's trademark horror elements when this book hits shelves on October 25.

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